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Angels Flight and the Flickers
moviesOlive Street, Hill Street, 300 Block As an addendum to my Angels Flight post, below, I got to thinking about AF’s relationship to cinema after OnBunkerHill'r John wrote to the other...
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Plucky Dame Pursues Purse Pilferers
purse snatching300 Block August 6, 1889Mrs. C.W. Strong, described by the Los Angeles Times as an elderly lady, was walking from her home at 340 South Hill Street to view a cottage near Fort Street...
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suicide, gas, widow300 BlockLocation: 360 South Hill Street Date: July 25, 1932Mrs. Blanche Hill, a recent widow who had suffered two paralytic strokes, killed herself with gas in her apartment. The...
View ArticleA Little Nippy
poison, venice, bite300 BlockLocation: 360 South Hill Street Date: July 11, 1932Mrs. L. Blanchard, 67, left her apartment for a carefree evening at the shore, but had a lousy time. According to Officer...
View ArticleAll That Glitters
theft, ring, fake300 BlockLocation: 360 South Hill Street Date: June 29, 1931Mrs. W.H. Gadd of this address (presumably a relation of manager S.J.) was driving near 12th Street and Burlington Avenue...
View ArticleGoodbye, mother!
suicide, cyanide, secrets300 BlockLocation: 360 South Hill Street Date: September 15, 1910The anonymous rooming house cyanide suicide seemed calculated to deliver himself into an unmarked pauper's...
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Last Shore Leave
robbery, shooting, police, marines, navy300 Block, 300 Block, 300 Block Location: 350 Clay Street Date: June 3, 1946In the not-quite-twelve hours since John M. Kelly was discharged from the Marine...
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Kaboom!
explosion, gas leak300 Block November 15, 1904 Harry L. Redd was crawling around beneath the city streets attempting to repair a telephone wire, but it was so dark he couldn’t see a thing. He’d been...
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Bunker Hill and the Crib Wars
prostitution, crib district, social purity crusaders300 Block They called it the red light district, the tenderloin, Little Paree, Hell's Half Acre, and my favorite, the crib district. From the late...
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Two New Mann Images — Final Days of the Flight!
CRA, Angels Flight, olive street, photography, george mann, Hill Street, McCoy House, 3D300 BlockHillzapoppin' in the OBH! A couple swanky new color images emerged from the greater Mann grotto and the...
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automobile, theft, alcohol, misadventure300 BlockLocation: 300 Block Hill Street Date: September 1, 1934We cannot know how many times mechanic Herbert Stockwell gazed from his window at 316 Clay Street...
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Angels Flight
Lovejoylovejoy, Sesnon, CRA, Angels Flight, Eddy, Elks, derailment, deathHill Street, 300 BlockAngels Flight—everybody’s favorite FUNicular—is there a more iconic piece of Bunker Hilliana? All...
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